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no, i think a lot of john boehner, ad goo man, a good leader, but he does have a lot of people to answer to, a lot of pressure on him, recriminations, and autopsy's being done on why we lost the white house. i think he's a little bit flexing to that, but at the end of the day, before he makes statements, i think most members would appreciate he consult with us first. neil: you're angry that he didn't? >> well, i don't want to characterize it as anger, but i just simply feel like we would have been betterserved and the american people would be better served to consult with other republicans before going out on a limb on some of the statements that arguably vague. neil: okay. congressman. we'll watch closely, bears watching here, a possibl revet without signing on to revenue of any sort. this is a mute point in california right now. they had two different propositions, two, to raise taxes, not just on the upper income, but everybody. californians agreed to it, both measures, overwhelmingly. that state's former governor davis on the meaning of that for the nation after this. neil: i was thi
no, i think a lot of john boehner, ad goo man, a good leader, but he does have a lot of people to answer to, a lot of pressure on him, recriminations, and autopsy's being done on why we lost the white house. i think he's a little bit flexing to that, but at the end of the day, before he makes statements, i think most members would appreciate he consult with us first. neil: you're angry that he didn't? >> well, i don't want to characterize it as anger, but i just simply feel like we would...
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now, i naively read between the lines of what the president said today and what john boehner said this week, and i did read the inklings of progress, but my cynical cohorts who never see anything good on anything that goes on disagree including charlie who doesn't trust anybody, melissa francis, with a great book out now that clearly tells me she doesn't like anybody, and lloyd weber, in the country, but clearly hates everybody here. [laughter] that's not true on any of the above, but begiing with you, signs of progress, do you see it? , i do. >> i do, i completely agree with you, neil. neil: i got to go the other way. >> he knows he has a great crisis which brings great opportunity. that has not -- neil: to negotiate? >> there's not been a reform of the tax code since 1986. loopholes cost a trillion dollars a year. he knows this is the big moment. neil: meaning negotiating on fine points. >> yeah, i don't know. did you hear the speech given a few hours ago? to me, he said, i won, deal with it. i have a mandate -- neil: i didn't interpret it that way. >>id you watch it? neil: he kept i
now, i naively read between the lines of what the president said today and what john boehner said this week, and i did read the inklings of progress, but my cynical cohorts who never see anything good on anything that goes on disagree including charlie who doesn't trust anybody, melissa francis, with a great book out now that clearly tells me she doesn't like anybody, and lloyd weber, in the country, but clearly hates everybody here. [laughter] that's not true on any of the above, but begiing...
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gentlemen, we were just hearing about tax talk from the president and from john boehner. we've been talking a lot about tax rates. it seems that's dominating the conversation. what about spending? aren't we talking about a very small number in terms of revenue that you can actually get from the so-called wealthy, more than $250,000? in the overall scheme of things, is that going to move the needle on our debt? shouldn't we also be talking about spending cuts? >> we're talking about getting between between 80 and $100 billion a year, which is no small number from revenue with when you consider the fact we have a $1.1 trillion deficit, that's not going to solve our problem. we must also reduce spending if we're going to put our fiscal house in order. >> senator? >> people are always saying, what should we cut? what spending would you like to cut? they say waste, fraud, and abuse. all earmarks, foreign aid, nancy pelosi's aircraft, all compensation for congress. that's nothing. that's about 4% of where we are. you get spending cuts by going into the entitlements programs. th
gentlemen, we were just hearing about tax talk from the president and from john boehner. we've been talking a lot about tax rates. it seems that's dominating the conversation. what about spending? aren't we talking about a very small number in terms of revenue that you can actually get from the so-called wealthy, more than $250,000? in the overall scheme of things, is that going to move the needle on our debt? shouldn't we also be talking about spending cuts? >> we're talking about...
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now, even john boehner and mitch mcconnell came out of that meeting in the white house and used the word revenue. it's on want table. they are acknowledging they will raise revenue. the only way i know to raise revenue is to raise taxes. i mean, does it sound to you like there's going to be a tax increase after all? >> no. if you remember, the comment that boehner and mitch mcconnell have made is they want revenue from economic growth. the best way to get revenue for the federal government is to grow the economy faster rather than slower. if you grow at 4% a year instead of 2% a year for one decade, the government raises $5 trillion. that is how you balance the budget. you cut spending, just as the republicans did in the last half of the 1990s. they cut the capital gains tax. we had more growth, and we slowed spending. that's what we need to focus on, not raising taxes on the american people and of course, obama's tax increases are there, but he hasn't put any spending restraint on the table. we look forward to seeing what he might be thinking of. >> mr. norquist, if you had to put money
now, even john boehner and mitch mcconnell came out of that meeting in the white house and used the word revenue. it's on want table. they are acknowledging they will raise revenue. the only way i know to raise revenue is to raise taxes. i mean, does it sound to you like there's going to be a tax increase after all? >> no. if you remember, the comment that boehner and mitch mcconnell have made is they want revenue from economic growth. the best way to get revenue for the federal...
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what did you hear from john boehner? he said he's willing to budge on revenue, not hike taxes, but is that enough. what are republicans willing to give here. >> the jury is still out. speaker boehner should put his r revenue plan on the table. i mean based on this republican theory that's been proven wrong by history that somehow by giving folks at the top of the income ladder a tax break, you'll create all this economic activity and it will pay for itself and not increase the deficit. we know that failed because what happened after we tried that last time was jobs went down and the deficit went up. so i think the speaker shoumd do what he says that he wants to do. put this out in public. the president has put his plan in public. it was a central part of the debate. saying that folks at the higher end should pay more to reduce our deficit because if we don't ask them to chip in more, it means everybody else gets hit harder. >> you heard what he said. we're not going to raise taxes on small business. and for republicans,
what did you hear from john boehner? he said he's willing to budge on revenue, not hike taxes, but is that enough. what are republicans willing to give here. >> the jury is still out. speaker boehner should put his r revenue plan on the table. i mean based on this republican theory that's been proven wrong by history that somehow by giving folks at the top of the income ladder a tax break, you'll create all this economic activity and it will pay for itself and not increase the deficit. we...
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house speaker john boehner is doing the dance of the seven veils. ♪ >> a day after the president's re-election, the speaker of the house opened the door to additional tax revenues. >> we're willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions. >> but after that telling peekaboo, boehner pulled back, announcing tax increases are not an option. >> raising tax rates is unacceptable. >> raising tax rates will slow down our ability to create the jobs that everyone says they want. >> last night, he revealed to diane sawyer that his party was no longer seeking to repeal the affordable care act. >> well, i think the election changes that. it's pretty clear that the president was elected, obama care is the law of the land. >> but you won't be spending the time next year trying to repeal obama care. >> there may be parts of it that we believe need to be changed. we may do that. no decisions at this point. >> but hours after that interview, boehner shrouded himself once again tweeting, obama care is law of the land but it is raising costs and threatening jobs. our goal has been and will remain #full
house speaker john boehner is doing the dance of the seven veils. ♪ >> a day after the president's re-election, the speaker of the house opened the door to additional tax revenues. >> we're willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions. >> but after that telling peekaboo, boehner pulled back, announcing tax increases are not an option. >> raising tax rates is unacceptable. >> raising tax rates will slow down our ability to create the jobs that everyone...
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you heard john boehner talking about the fact on the issue that has divided them on the fiscal cliff issue saying clearly that he does not want to raise taxes. he did say that maybe he would be for some kind of raising some kind of revenue. he didn't say what that means but talked about broad tax reform. on the other side of the capital. you saw right there the senate majority leader harry reid feeling like he has leverage here, it was a clear-cut issue, but also because of the mechanics of it. if nobody does anything, taxes will go up. so democrats realize that they feel like they are probably right. >> there was a private conference call that he had, what do you know about it? >> we were told this was a call where all house republicans were on it. he was sober and he tried to buck everyone up and said that we are the lift line of defense from an america that barack obama would design. he had a clear message which was hold your fire. i need to have running room. i need to have running room to figure out how we can do this the right way. i'm told that he said he won't let the white h
you heard john boehner talking about the fact on the issue that has divided them on the fiscal cliff issue saying clearly that he does not want to raise taxes. he did say that maybe he would be for some kind of raising some kind of revenue. he didn't say what that means but talked about broad tax reform. on the other side of the capital. you saw right there the senate majority leader harry reid feeling like he has leverage here, it was a clear-cut issue, but also because of the mechanics of it....
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he meets with harry reid, mitch mcconnell, john boehner and in an say palau and i. in an say pelosi. speaking on on thursday, simpson and bowles said washington hasn't been able to resolve the fiscal cliff because lawmakers haven't been focused on what's right for the country. >> leaders think it would be to their advantage to go off the fiscal cliff. what a wonderful trait that is, that we can win more as democrats if we let it go or more as complains. people are sick of that and they're ashamed of it. >> if we do get our house in order, future of america is really bright. if we don't, we're well on our way it to becoming a second rate power. >> bowles sees a one third chan of a deal during the lame duck session of congress. a one third chance nothing gets done and the economy moves into chaos. let's hear in michael gurhka. the economy moving in to chaos, is that why we're seeing this market action? >> i'm not surprised because on the equity side, it's always about confidence and right now a lot of politicians have not given the market any confidence whatsoever. so
he meets with harry reid, mitch mcconnell, john boehner and in an say palau and i. in an say pelosi. speaking on on thursday, simpson and bowles said washington hasn't been able to resolve the fiscal cliff because lawmakers haven't been focused on what's right for the country. >> leaders think it would be to their advantage to go off the fiscal cliff. what a wonderful trait that is, that we can win more as democrats if we let it go or more as complains. people are sick of that and they're...
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today we did hear from president obama and house speaker john boehner, both stressing the need for washington to please work together to avoid that fiscal cliff. but will they be able to find middle ground? and rich, of course the news in the last 7 minutes, 11 minutes or so was that the president will be speaking once again on wednesday. but what are you hearing? you've got your ear to the ground. what do you hear? rich: that's right, news conference next wednesday. president obama says he is willing to negotiate, willing to speak with republicans. in fact next week, democrats and republicans congressional leaders are working at a time to come here to the white house to meet with the president. but president obama made it clear when it comes to raising taxes on wealthier americans, he says the voters have spoken. >> this was a central question during the election. it was debated over and over again. and on tuesday night, we found that the majority of americans agree with my approach. and that includes democrats, independents, and a lot of republicans across the country. rich: the white house
today we did hear from president obama and house speaker john boehner, both stressing the need for washington to please work together to avoid that fiscal cliff. but will they be able to find middle ground? and rich, of course the news in the last 7 minutes, 11 minutes or so was that the president will be speaking once again on wednesday. but what are you hearing? you've got your ear to the ground. what do you hear? rich: that's right, news conference next wednesday. president obama says he is...
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boehner in the house --. lori: david, i'm so sorry to interrupt you. we have breaking news. we'll get back to the conversation. we're getting started. the president we are hearing arriving in staten island, an area, hard, hard hit by superstorm sandy. he is is expected to address the press after he speaks with first-responders. you can see the crowd there. a lot of media members looking to grab an interview or comments from the president as he tours sandy's storm-ravaged staten island. all right. let's return to our conversation with mr. west self "the wall street journal.". when we hear from the mr. president we'll return to that. thanks for rolling, david. continue with your comments. you said this was the calm before the storm if you will. >> right. everybody is basically trying to jockey for position, making clear what their opening bid is and trying to make the public thing if this doesn't work out it was the other guy who was reasonable, other guy was unreasonable. lori: what is going to get this thing
boehner in the house --. lori: david, i'm so sorry to interrupt you. we have breaking news. we'll get back to the conversation. we're getting started. the president we are hearing arriving in staten island, an area, hard, hard hit by superstorm sandy. he is is expected to address the press after he speaks with first-responders. you can see the crowd there. a lot of media members looking to grab an interview or comments from the president as he tours sandy's storm-ravaged staten island. all...
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now, john boehner had something to say today about revenue. by revenue, everybody, we're talking about, well, that's the whole point. there's different things we could be talking about. here's john boehner. >> there will be many who will say that with the election over, we should confront the first of these challenges by letting the top two tax rates expire and pushing the sequester off. it won't get us out of the problem and it will also hurt our economy. because the american people expect us to find common ground, we're willing to accept some additional revenues via tax reforl. >> now, when i hear that, i don't hear i'm okay letting taxes go up on some people. i hear i'm okay closing loopholes and deductions where some high income earners may pay more than others. is that a deal you could work with? >> the question is is, what is speaker boehner saying? he really talking about a balanced approach or what he used to talk about and republicans have claimed, which is another round of tax breaks for wealthy people will somehow trickle down, magi
now, john boehner had something to say today about revenue. by revenue, everybody, we're talking about, well, that's the whole point. there's different things we could be talking about. here's john boehner. >> there will be many who will say that with the election over, we should confront the first of these challenges by letting the top two tax rates expire and pushing the sequester off. it won't get us out of the problem and it will also hurt our economy. because the american people...
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because john boehner is in more trouble now. the senate democrats coming in are clearly more pressive than the people they are replacing and they are more of them. i look at this and i'm saying it's not quite a stan pat situation, that is the election results made things more difficult rather than easier. and i still don't see anybody having that kind of come buy i can't moment. >> i would say i basically had stan's point of view up until the day of the election or tuesday night. and i think we've just gotten -- we've been in a situation where both sides just seem to harden their positions as we go forward. but i do think there was a lot that changed tuesday and i think that environment is somewhat reflected in the statement that john boehner made yesterday afternoon and i was being told comments he had on a conference call with his membership about how they had to change the way they operate. but when you look at the fact that you had a very significant victory by the president who campaigned on the issue of fiscal responsibili
because john boehner is in more trouble now. the senate democrats coming in are clearly more pressive than the people they are replacing and they are more of them. i look at this and i'm saying it's not quite a stan pat situation, that is the election results made things more difficult rather than easier. and i still don't see anybody having that kind of come buy i can't moment. >> i would say i basically had stan's point of view up until the day of the election or tuesday night. and i...
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. >> that was speaker of the house, john boehner, talking about the looming fiscal cliche. republicans are ready to sit down at the table with president obam a. but is he prepared to compromise? listen to when he had to say earlier today. >> i want to be clear. i am not wedded to every dedale tail of my plan. i am open to compromise. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 are not asked to pay a dime more in taxes. i am not going to do that. i want to point out, this was a central question during the election. it was debated over and over again. and on tuesday night, we found out that the majority of americans agree with my approach. and that includes democrat independents and a lot of republicans, throughout the country, as well as independent economists and budget experts. that's how you reduce the deficit. a balanced approach. so our job is to get a majority in congress to reflect the will of the american people. >> joining me with reaction are the author of who is the f
. >> that was speaker of the house, john boehner, talking about the looming fiscal cliche. republicans are ready to sit down at the table with president obam a. but is he prepared to compromise? listen to when he had to say earlier today. >> i want to be clear. i am not wedded to every dedale tail of my plan. i am open to compromise. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 are not...
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john boehner will do things a little bit differently. we had some major conflict between john boehner and eric cantor. that her what a lot were trying to do. we talk to republicans who were frustrated by that. there is tension between the members, tension between staff. at one point they had to have a press conference or they put their arms around each other. that shows you the needed to show it. maybe some people did not buy it. this time we are hearing the staffs are working better and the members are doing better. they came up with a game plan because they have to be united. they actually have to lead the republican congress. they have to turn it round. host: christian science monitor -- here is your headline. let's listen to what harry reid had to say yesterday. [video clip] >> it is better to dance than to fight. it is better to work together. everything does not have to be a fight. that is the way it has been the past couple of years. everybody should comprehend, especially my senate friends, legislation is the art of compromise an
john boehner will do things a little bit differently. we had some major conflict between john boehner and eric cantor. that her what a lot were trying to do. we talk to republicans who were frustrated by that. there is tension between the members, tension between staff. at one point they had to have a press conference or they put their arms around each other. that shows you the needed to show it. maybe some people did not buy it. this time we are hearing the staffs are working better and the...
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john boehner ruled it out completely. so it is definitely an escape hatch. >> bill: i've heard talk around washington male raise it up to a million and get enough republican votes. >> could be the way. >> bill: jake, great to see you. thanks for coming in. jake from politico. politico.com. follow him and all of the other good guys at politico. we'll be right back. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." it's one box with hundreds of possibilities. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. in what world do potatoes, bacon and cheese add up to 100 calories? your world. ♪ ♪ [ whispers ] real bacon... creamy cheese... 100 calories... [ chef ] ma'am [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. [ forsythe ] we don't just come up here for the view up in alaska. it's the cleanest, clearest water. we find the best sweetest crab for red lobster that we can find. [ male announcer ] hurry in to red lobster's crabfest! the only time of year you can savor 5 succulent crab entrees all under 20 dollars. like a half-pound of t
john boehner ruled it out completely. so it is definitely an escape hatch. >> bill: i've heard talk around washington male raise it up to a million and get enough republican votes. >> could be the way. >> bill: jake, great to see you. thanks for coming in. jake from politico. politico.com. follow him and all of the other good guys at politico. we'll be right back. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." it's one box with hundreds of possibilities. [ woman...
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boehner and minority leader nancy pelosi. so, will we get a deal? one man getting a lot of attention is erskine bowles. who along with alan simpson created the simpson-bowles plan on deficit reduction. i have to start by asking you, did you ever think your name would be part of pop culture? you are the bowles in simpson bowles. >> better be simpson bowles than bowles simpson since everybody knows him by his initials here in washington. >> so, when you talk about things, sacred cows, untouchables, whatever the word might be, in your proposal, the one paul ryan decided not to back, the one barack obama decided not to back, you had an increase in the federal gasoline tax. caps on mortgage interest. charitable donations and retirement contributions. these were all tough choices you made. you also increased the eligibility age for medicare and social security. reduced benefits for wealthier seniors. some of those things i've heard democrats and republicans say they agree on, others they loathe them. is there anything that should b
boehner and minority leader nancy pelosi. so, will we get a deal? one man getting a lot of attention is erskine bowles. who along with alan simpson created the simpson-bowles plan on deficit reduction. i have to start by asking you, did you ever think your name would be part of pop culture? you are the bowles in simpson bowles. >> better be simpson bowles than bowles simpson since everybody knows him by his initials here in washington. >> so, when you talk about things, sacred cows,...
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boehner said that he -- he seemed to indicate that he wanted to wait until after january. do you think that that's going to happen, that there might be an extension of the runway, if you will, to allow for there to be negotiations in the next term? >> well, something has to be done now because the fiscal cliff and the sequestration across-the-board cuts in january. we'll have to see. i spoke with the president today. we've been speaking as a leadership team. we would like to do as much of it as we can now because -- if we can. but we don't really know what speaker boehner's words mean in terms of coming back. i do know that one thing we could do that would be very positive and very immediate would be to pass our farm bill which has $23 billion in deficit reduction in it. but i mean, we would like to do as much as we can. we've got a huge debt. we've got to address what needs to happen on tax reform as well. but we'll have to see. at this point i don't think we're fully going to know until next week when we come back. >> jennifer: you guys have a stronger hand so you should
boehner said that he -- he seemed to indicate that he wanted to wait until after january. do you think that that's going to happen, that there might be an extension of the runway, if you will, to allow for there to be negotiations in the next term? >> well, something has to be done now because the fiscal cliff and the sequestration across-the-board cuts in january. we'll have to see. i spoke with the president today. we've been speaking as a leadership team. we would like to do as much of...
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boehner signaling he may be ready for a deal. so conservatives are warning while the president does not have to face the voters again, congressional democrats will in two years. tax hikes could come back to haunt them. >> i think he is going to require increase in tax rate on wealthy. that is his downfall. that is just makes no sense whatsoever. the wealthy are the people who hire everyone else. you can't love jobs and hate job creators. >> white house officials note the president campaigned on raising taxes and he won so he thinks he can sell it to the congressional democrats. meanwhile, the white house officials tonight say he will make the first post-election statement at the white house. tomorrow afternoon, talk about the economy, fiscal cliff. it doesn't look like he will take questions, not a full scale. post election news conference, though. it may be coming soon. >> bret: we'll cover it live on fox. thanks. what is the most pressing issue right now for president? let me know on twitter. follow me. @bretbaier. we kept you
boehner signaling he may be ready for a deal. so conservatives are warning while the president does not have to face the voters again, congressional democrats will in two years. tax hikes could come back to haunt them. >> i think he is going to require increase in tax rate on wealthy. that is his downfall. that is just makes no sense whatsoever. the wealthy are the people who hire everyone else. you can't love jobs and hate job creators. >> white house officials note the president...
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boehner than he was back in the debt ceiling negotiations almost two years ago? >> well, you're right. i'm not going to start doing that negotiation. what i would say is that the president, in his budget, put forward 360 billion in health savings. the president understands that health reform, entitlement reform is going to be part of this package. he's been very clear about that. and he's made that clear even to those supporters who might prefer to have zero or less medicare savings as part of an agreement. the president's focus has always been that when you are trying to reduce the degree that medicare contributes to the deficit, that the best way to do that is to look for things that lower overall health expenditures, as opposed to proposals that simply shift costs. they may lower the federal government spending, but only at the expense of increasing overall health care expanding -- spending in a private health care and gaza. said he will be of course open to ideas and this issue. but it comes with a fundamental principle of the best thing for our, the best thi
boehner than he was back in the debt ceiling negotiations almost two years ago? >> well, you're right. i'm not going to start doing that negotiation. what i would say is that the president, in his budget, put forward 360 billion in health savings. the president understands that health reform, entitlement reform is going to be part of this package. he's been very clear about that. and he's made that clear even to those supporters who might prefer to have zero or less medicare savings as...
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that means john boehner falling on a grenade. you can do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach under your bull belly and pull the pin on that grenade it makes it a little bit harder because you're not going to have unified leadership to support this and it will be a very interesting dynamic. what struck me the most about election eve in a related vein was with barack obama said, extraordinarily i thought. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work together to find that common ground. my guess is that romney did not receive that statement with great enthusiasm and eagerness. he was going through his own period according but after running a campaign that was built around the idea, i will find a common ground and i can reach a common ground obama calls the minutes as says we really need this. we are about to go off the fiscal cliff. would you help me build support for this deal that will have the support of the business community and a supermajority in the senate in a bipartisan way. th
that means john boehner falling on a grenade. you can do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach under your bull belly and pull the pin on that grenade it makes it a little bit harder because you're not going to have unified leadership to support this and it will be a very interesting dynamic. what struck me the most about election eve in a related vein was with barack obama said, extraordinarily i thought. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work...
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that's what john boehner said we need to see. in reform you get more revenue, but not necessarily by taxing the people who could create the revenue and the jobs. >> austan, before he answers, i'm going to interrupt you. i'll let you answer on the other side. >> 350,000 jobless claims last week, drop from 8,000 claims from the week before and i'm going to go out on a limb and say hurricane sandy, this is the first number we've seen superstorm sandy mess up. we're going to start to see -- if you were hunkered down waiting for a hurricane you weren't necessarily going out to file first time unemployment benefits, were you? from here on out that's a good question for austan, too. we'll start to see a lot of noise in the economic reports as we try to figure out if the economy is healing because of sandy. >> first back to the tax reform question. can you answer that? >> therein lies the rub of the statement yesterday. if by raising revenue through tax reform meant let's go in and figure out how we broaden the base and get rid of deduct
that's what john boehner said we need to see. in reform you get more revenue, but not necessarily by taxing the people who could create the revenue and the jobs. >> austan, before he answers, i'm going to interrupt you. i'll let you answer on the other side. >> 350,000 jobless claims last week, drop from 8,000 claims from the week before and i'm going to go out on a limb and say hurricane sandy, this is the first number we've seen superstorm sandy mess up. we're going to start to...
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that means john boehner falling on the grenade. you could do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach underbelly and pull the pans on that grenade, and it's a little -- it makes it a little bit harder. you will not have a unified leadership to support this. bush took me most about statements on election lee -- election eve is what barack obama said. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work together to find that common ground. my guess is that mitt romney did not receive that statement with great enthusiasm and the denis. he was going through his own time of morning but having run a campaign in the last month built around that idea, i can reach that common ground. obama call them in and says we really need this. would you help build support for this deal that will have the support of the business community,. delaware of the interesting phenomenon. at the same time, we had an announcement today by simpson bowles both to buy selected a $5 billion in business support for going aggressively
that means john boehner falling on the grenade. you could do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach underbelly and pull the pans on that grenade, and it's a little -- it makes it a little bit harder. you will not have a unified leadership to support this. bush took me most about statements on election lee -- election eve is what barack obama said. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work together to find that common ground. my guess is that mitt...
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guest: john boehner said he was looking for a golf game with the president. i do not know, talking to the obama campaign during the election, they were confronting an angry set of voters, even those who supported them. the theatrics in washington -- we have heard a lot of callers talk about this. i don't know if they have a place right now. this is an extremely urgent thing they have to address. it could have real consequences on recovery, really end it, and i do not think we will see a lot of that. i do not think the president wants to strike that tone. i think it will be pretty serious. it does not mean they will not try to get together in some kind of setting, but i do not think it will be seen the light it was in summer 2011. host: we want to thank our two white house reporters. thank you both for being here. that does it for today's "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. with more of your questions and comments via phone and twitter. thanks for watching. host: [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyrigh
guest: john boehner said he was looking for a golf game with the president. i do not know, talking to the obama campaign during the election, they were confronting an angry set of voters, even those who supported them. the theatrics in washington -- we have heard a lot of callers talk about this. i don't know if they have a place right now. this is an extremely urgent thing they have to address. it could have real consequences on recovery, really end it, and i do not think we will see a lot of...
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. >> you're not taking any heart in the conciliatory stuff that we've heard from john boehner and -- >> yeah, from boehner i am. the president has now painted himself -- painted those guys in to -- how many times has he drawn a line in the sand about that high right on 250. he's made a point and he can't possibly go back on that now, can he? >> i think he can. look, i think he's drawing a line on getting money from those people, there people making 250 and above. but he hasn't drawn a line on how he gets that money. he's said at his news conference i'm skeptical that you can do enough in loopholes and exclusions to get the money that we need for a deal from that group. but he also said i'm open to new ideas. so if there is in fact an effort to close some loopholes that gets you some of the way there, you can certainly see the president, i could anyway, compromising somewhere between 35 and 39.6 on a slightly higher rate. if shall be caomebody came up w source of revenue which didn't change the distribution of the tax burden, figure out a way to do it without a top rate. i kind of exp
. >> you're not taking any heart in the conciliatory stuff that we've heard from john boehner and -- >> yeah, from boehner i am. the president has now painted himself -- painted those guys in to -- how many times has he drawn a line in the sand about that high right on 250. he's made a point and he can't possibly go back on that now, can he? >> i think he can. look, i think he's drawing a line on getting money from those people, there people making 250 and above. but he hasn't...
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john boehner has already talked about working with the president on this. let me say this, the vitriol of the last two years or maybe the last four years on both sides to have fence, democrats and republicans, need, that needs to stop. we need to move forward together as a united america and put the vitriol away, put the campaign mode away. i think all americans want that. i know some republicans want that and some democrats want that. let's find that common ground and move forward. shannon: this event that the president had last friday at the white house to a lot of people looked a lot like a campaign event. they was surrounded by people who were described as middle class americans who had voted for him and stakeholders who want to see his particular plans forwarded. there were no questions from the press. it looked a lot like a campaign event. brad, this is part of what the president had so say. he said on tuesday voters said loud and clear on tuesday they won't tolerate politicians who use compromise as a dirty word. cooperation, consensus. is the presid
john boehner has already talked about working with the president on this. let me say this, the vitriol of the last two years or maybe the last four years on both sides to have fence, democrats and republicans, need, that needs to stop. we need to move forward together as a united america and put the vitriol away, put the campaign mode away. i think all americans want that. i know some republicans want that and some democrats want that. let's find that common ground and move forward. shannon:...